Comment & Opinion

Industrial developers aren’t coming to McKean County and rural Pennsylvania because we’re uniquely suited for their projects. They come because they’v...

In Pennsylvania political circles, I talk about the short ballot — that rare alignment every 12 years when we have no U.S. Senate race, presidential r...

The Congressional Budget Office’s annual 10-year economic forecast warns that, by 2030, the federal debt held by the public will be $40.3 trillion, or...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is something about manufacturing jobs, and the manufacturing industry, that makes people sentimental. When they think of a fact...

Controversial education firms that helped embed diversity, equity and inclusion principles in K-12 military schools during President Joe Biden’s admin...

The ongoing pharmacy closure crisis in Pennsylvania has become an alarming issue for communities throughout the commonwealth. Since 2020, over 1,000 c...

Few politicians evoke strong emotions like U.S. Sen. John Fetterman. Certainly, no Pennsylvania politician elicits more conversation. And no other maj...

The late writer and satirist P.J. O’Rourke once famously noted, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage b...

When it comes to daylight saving time, American lawmakers remain in the dark. Admittedly, there are more important things for Congress to consider; bu...

In Pennsylvania, the governor’s budget address kicks off five months — sometimes 8 to 12 months — of negotiations, hearings, votes, and consternation....

The 2026 federal budget contains $15.8 billion in earmark funding for 8,475 local projects in lawmakers’ home districts, but the money was not distrib...

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds ...

Celebrations broke out across Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, an...

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade w...

While comparison may be the thief of joy, new affordability data delivers a clear warning: Pennsylvania is affordable today, but that advantage may no...

The small tributary rushed past in a thick, chocolate slurry. Streambanks lay slumped into the flow. Habitat was scoured away. Pools were choked with ...

One doesn’t associate luxury with being in the military, but Pentagon personnel spent record amounts of money dining on seafood in 2025, according to ...

A new statewide survey from RealClear Opinion Research and Emerson Polling found 58% of Pennsylvania residents think ICE enforcement has gone too far,...

About 7 feet above the ground on the front of a former YMCA building in Pittsburgh, a small horizontal plaque reads “HIGH WATER MARK / MARCH 18, 1936....

The federal government lost $186 billion to improper payments in fiscal year 2025, according to newly released data from the Office of Management and ...